Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’
Hickenlooper tells Weld farmers “take bad with the good” by Jack Minor— In the latest twist in the issue around Weld farmers requesting to pump groundwater to save their crops and help lower excessively high groundwater levels, a government official said farmers can pump all day long to keep groundwater out of their basementS, [...]
Tags: agriculture, anything, area, benefit, disaster, farmer, governor, Hoshiko, issue, John, OK, rate, show, solution, state, time, unemployment rate, use, water, Weld County
Teens could not operate pressure hoses under rulesby Matt Lacy – Congressman Cory Gardner has said that proposed regulations by the federal government that would bar young people from operating farm equipment shows that Washington needs a reality check “You get somebody who doesn’t understand agriculture and you get screwy regulations like this,” Rep. Cory [...]
Tags: age, agriculture, authority, ban, bar, change, check, Congress, Department, evidence, experience, Gardner, government, labor, safety, show, today, use, Washington, year
by Jack Minor – A bill to prevent the EPA from regulating farm dust that was co-sponsored by Rep. Cory Gardner, passed the house on a largely party line vote. The bill prevented the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing any new regulations that could impose harsher restrictions on area farmers by regulating dust generated by [...]
Tags: Agency, agriculture, anything, area, Bill, case, claim, Cory Gardner, doubt, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, farmers and ranchers, Gardner, Jack Minor, life, line, lot, right, vote, work
Story and Photo By Jack Minor At a recent forum on agriculture Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway had some sharp words for a Senate staffer asking her boss to lay off local community banks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and staffers from both Sen. Michael Bennet’s office and Rep Betsy Markey’s office hosted a forum [...]
Tags: agriculture, Bennet, Bennett, campus, capital, College, credit, crisis, development, Farm, farmer, food stamps, Frontier, government, loan, Michael, place, Rep. Betsy Markey, staffer
© 2010 - 2013 Northern Colorado Gazette , PO Box 6, Greeley CO 80632 • All Rights Reserved •
| Powered By Zera Communications | Follow us |  |
 |  |
Entries(RSS)